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Back in 1991 during the Crown Heights Riots the Democrat Mayor of New York David Denkins had a strategy that mirrored the Mayor of Baltimore's strategy and that was to give rioters who wanted to destroy room. He allowed rioters to blow off steam and it only made things worse.

Of-course the similarities don't end there. New York was a crime ridden cess pool with a murder rate that peaked under Denkins watch. Thanks to Guiliani who took over in 1993, crime rates finally started to drop off and New York was cleaned up.

Its a testament to the destructive effects of Liberal policies.

Indeed they are destructive, these Liberal policies. AND they always expect free and easy usage of other people's money.

Disinformation campaign? The Russian collusion meme pushed by the 'news' media, behaving as a political propaganda organ, hell bent to destroy a legitimately elected president to implement his agenda per the votes of the same electorate. Reference The Big Lie Reference Goebbels

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A figure of 27,785 deaths (and 100 thousand disabling heart attacks and strokes) caused by Vioxx. Once the drug was on the market, Merck intentionally suppressed data showing it caused strokes and heart attacks at twice the normal rate. Dorothy Hamill twirled on the ice and "It's a beautiful morning" lilted from every TV in the land as Merck pushed a drug that CEO Ray Gilmartin and the other top bosses knew would kill peopleRofecoxib - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Calm

Just about any action criminal or otherwise can be justified via comparison

That doesn't mean the criminals who exploit the deaths of perfect stranger should get a pass.

It also doesn't mean that the underlying issues that lead to inner city Communitees turning into a tender box should be ignored either.

I bet the hard working law abiding people that live in Ferguson or Baltimore could give a rats ass about Ukraine.

Especially now after what once was their neighborhood is now a series of burned out structures and vandalized cars.

People don't realize that riots leave lasting impressions on a community. There are still burned out structures in Detroit from the riots that took place decades ago.

Whats sad is these riots will be relatively quickly forgotten and the real issues that steer inner city areas into powder kegs will be ignored like they've been for decades.

" If no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else ? "
Ronald Reagan

The riots broke out over the weekend when there was a game at Camden Yards Orioles versus the Red Sox. White folks tend to like baseball. They have restaurants/bars with outside seating. Lots of white folks tend to grab some lunch and a brew or two and then walk across the street to the game. This is the area that the mayor allowed those who wanted to destroy things to occur. It was white folks being terrorized in their cars. It was white folks having projectiles hurled at them and injuring them. Things being thrown at the windows shattering where they had gathered inside. There is even footage of a white woman in a wheel chair blocked and white folks standing around her as human shields to protect her from getting hit with objects.The raw footage verifies this to be fact.

Oh. My. God.

"Freedom doesn't mean safe, it means free."

"No, you'll be *a* judge of that, just like everyone else who reads it."

Originally Posted by applejuicefool

A murderer putting a bullet through someone's brain is a medical procedure too.

racial sensitivity = you're a minority, you get a free pass? Just like the dumb **** Balto mayor?

Not buying it.

It's a values and respect for other gap. Many more have a value system that prevents, or at least inhibits, them from rioting and looting, but seems that the population in question has little value for that respect of others, authority, much less themselves.

How about 'If you won't want to get into trouble with the law, don't break any laws, and show some respect' ?

Um, no, you are not cognizant, apparently, of the fact that minorities tend to be stopped, and arrested, and charged, and convicted in higher percentages than whites. There is often a bias, profiling, etc.

Minorities get pulled over for just being minorities.

"Freedom doesn't mean safe, it means free."

"No, you'll be *a* judge of that, just like everyone else who reads it."

Originally Posted by applejuicefool

A murderer putting a bullet through someone's brain is a medical procedure too.

What's wrong Lursa, even the sportscasters describe baseball as a "white" sport. Those who were there across from Camden Yards were overwhelmingly WHITE that were being attacked. All the raw video proves that to be a fact.

That is grotesque. However there can be...should be?...programs that start earlier, like in high school, to encourage minorities to take an interest in law enforcement jobs. Just like for athletics...they have to maintain certain grade levels to pass and play. I realize that's only if the kids are really interested when teens.

But no way should standards be lowered. And as the article showed with an example, blacks dont need it or want to be seen as needing it.

"Freedom doesn't mean safe, it means free."

"No, you'll be *a* judge of that, just like everyone else who reads it."

Originally Posted by applejuicefool

A murderer putting a bullet through someone's brain is a medical procedure too.